Alliance Tournament XV: Teams and Rules

2017-05-24 - By CCP Logibro - EVE news

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Hello thinking and tinkering Capsuleers

With team signups now closed, we can announce the teams that will be participating in Alliance Tournament XV from July 29 to August 20. The following 15 teams are returning from Alliance Tournament XIV:

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A Band Apart.

Dream Fleet

Exodus.

Fraternity.

Mercenary Coalition

Northern Coalition.

Paisti Syndicate

Pandemic Legion

Phoebe Freeport Republic

THE R0NIN

The Tuskers Co.

Villore Accords

VYDRA RELOLDED

WE FORM V0LTA

The following teams made successful bids in the Secret Auction. As only 15 teams from Alliance Tournament XIV used their option to return to Alliance Tournament XV, a 17th auction spot was offered.

Alliance

PLEX Bid

Brave Collective

35500

HYDRA RELOADED

20500

The Bastard Cartel

16750

Hard Knocks Citizens

16500

Thermodynamics

14000

Out of Sight.

12750

CAStabouts

12000

The Clown Car

10250

Quebec United Legions (with La Divison Bleue)

10250

We want your ISK

8000

L A Z E R H A W K S

7750

Intrepid Crossing

7500

United Federation of Conifers

7000

The Initiative.

6750

The Bastion

5250

skill urself

5000

Band of Backstabbers

5000

Finally, the remaining 56 teams will take part in the feeder rounds on June 10th and 11th in an attempt to enter the tournament proper. They are:

An Alliance Has No Name

Army of New Eden

Asteria Concord.

Badfellas Inc.

Best Intentions.

Blades of Grass (with Demonic Wheat Pineapple)

Bright Side of Death

Brotherhood of Spacers

Brothers in Arms Alliance

ChaosTheory.

Circle-Of-Two

Digital Vendetta

End of Life

Fidelas Constans

Ghost Legion.

Good at this Game

Goonswarm Federation

Heirs of Nothing (with I Aim To Misbehave)

Hole Control

Iron Armada

It Must Be Jelly Cause Jam Don't Shake

IT'S ONLY PIXELS

Legio Astartes Arcanum

LowSechnaya Sholupen

Men with Fancy Hats

MOIST.

MORDUS ANGELS

No Handlebars.

Of Sound Mind

Pen Is Out

Project.Mayhem.

PURPLE HELMETED WARRIORS

R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N

RAZOR Alliance

Red Alliance

Rejection of Sovereignty

Requiem Eternal

Rote Kapelle (with Rote Works)

Red vs Blue

Salt Farmers

SAMURAI SOUL'd OUT

senseless intentions

Shadow Cartel

Sleeping Dragons

Snuffed Out

Solar Fleet

Solyaris Chtonium

Spaceship Bebop

Spectre Fleet Alliance

Templis CALSF

Test Alliance Please Ignore

The Explicit Alliance

The Society For Unethical Treatment Of Sleepers

The-Culture

WAFFLES.

Wormhole Society

Training in the Thunderdome

As with last year, we will be opening Thunderdome to teams practicing for Alliance Tournament. If your team wish to gain access to Thunderdome, please have one of your team captains send an email from the email address registered to their account to logibro@ccpgames.com with the following information:

Who is requesting access (please give alliance and your character name to make verification easier)

A list of character IDs (preferred) or character names for characters you would like to have access to the server OR

A list of corporation IDs (preferred) or corporation names within your alliance that you would like to have access to the server OR

A statement that you would like your entire alliance to have access to the server

A list of character IDs (preferred) or character names for characters you wish to have access to the tournament tools (maximum 10)

Whichever of the option you choose for giving an access list, the total number of characters must not exceed 500, and all characters must be in your alliance.

Teams should note that passwords are being pulled from Singularity, so if your current password does not work you should try an older one.

While we try to ensure that Thunderdome is available for practice at all times, Thunderdome may be unavailable at certain times, and may also play host to other events in the leadup to the tournament. Please check the EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion forum for updates on expected interruptions to Thunderdome.

Feeding the Beast

For those teams that are participating in the feeder rounds, the structure will be as follows:

Round 1: 56 teams, with the 28 teams that win progressing to the Alliance Tournament

Round 2: 28 teams, with the 14 teams that lose being eliminated

Round 3: 14 teams, with the 6 teams that lose being eliminated (2 teams will receive a bye)

Round 4: 8 teams, with the 4 teams that win progressing to the Alliance Tournament

The round of 56 will be completed on June 10, with all remaining matches being played out on June 11. The byes in round 3 will be awarded to the two remaining teams with the highest average points difference across their previous matches.

Seeding for the feeder tournament will be randomized, and will be announced at the end of the week.

Bracket Seeding

This year, we will be using a similar method as used in AT XIV to seed the brackets for the main tournament:

Teams will be seeded into a standard 64 team double elimination bracket

Any teams that competed in Alliance Tournament XIV will be ordered based on their overall position last year. Teams eliminated in the same round will be ranked within that round based on the average points difference across their matches in AT XIV.

Teams that did not compete in AT XIV will be randomly seeded in the remaining positions through a second draw.

While team signups have closed, we’re still accepting applications for commentators until 2017-05-28 23:59, so make sure you send in your application before then. Check out the earlier announcement for more details.